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i started skiing because my friends did it, i had a resort 3km away and my parents bought me a seasonpass and joined me to the local skiclub. the place where i first hit snow with downhill skis was my home resorts (still is) main slope and it was a ski school lesson. this all happened 9 years ago, i didn't like it at all cause my helmet was too small and the teacher was not good. i swore i would never ski again. but now, 9 years later, skiing is something i could not live without. it gives me a chance to get away from normal life. and it's super awesome to see the stoke i have in the kids i coach.
relevant quote:
"the feeling i get from skiing, that's worth dying for" - CR
My parents brought my brothers and I to vail in 2000 or 2001 dont really remember and I barely remember skiing just crying at the daycare. So I started basically because of that and my parents both work in the industry
I started skiing because my parents both ski and the first place I started skiing wasn't even considered a mountain because it was too small, Willard mountain. And I first started skiing 12 years ago when I was 3
Started skiing because my uncle made me come to find out after the first couple times skiing was going to take over my life. Started when I was fifteen or sixteen and on my local mountain out here on the ice coast. Thank you skiing.
I started skiing to be like my dad who also skied. I think I was 7ish when I started and learned on a orange plastic handled rope tow at pats peak in henniker new hampshire(where paintball started), about a half hour from where I was born. Pats peak ran a cheap program from 3pm to 10pm on saturday nights where you could get your lift ticket, rent gear, go tubing, and some basic ski/snowboard instruction for $22. That pricing made it affordable for a lot of people and fed the bigger places like loon in the region.
Pats peak has about 700ft of vert, a ghetto park, and last time I was there they had a "money booter" set up.
the chair on the left is the hurricane triple and "gnar" hurricane bump run that my 9 year old self went down. Looked funny cause the bumps were almost knee high on me.
been skiing all my life, didnt enjoy it as much as I should have as a kid.... switched to snowboarding for a couple years, stopped cause i realized it was dumb having one leg and my ass hurt.
Then the Lord our savior, freeskiing and freestyle skiing came to me in a dream, it appeared as a bright light that woke me from a deep slumber.
It said to me - "chuch... why have you shied away from the glory and stokage? From this moment forward you are my vessel, everything you were is no more and everything you will become will be coated in a fresh layer of deep deep powder, go forth and shred my son..."
I bought a pair of twin tips the next morning. The day after that I sent it. Learned some spins in my first 20 days and that just perpetuated my will to do the lords work and spin harder and faster and jump onto rails and take some hits, get up, do it again, and take some more hits.
To this day, regardless of starting late, regardless of kids much younger than I killing it, regardless of taking those hits and sometimes looking stupid, I push myself to slay it as hard as I can so that one day the lord will open the lifts to Valhalla (which is a killer mountain in the sky).
I am skiing, you are skiing, we are the living, breathing, embodiment of gnar. Accept the lord into your hearts and let the fresh powder wash over you and absolve you of your worries.
I didnt like snowboarding and watched the Slumdog Illionaire and transeferred over to skiing around 3 years ago and my first day of skiing was at ski sundown ct
Started skiing when I was 10/11. Been skiing for 4 years and joined a race team last year so I could get even better. Park also interested me a lot more this year.
My roommate got lost in the backcountry and sadly after a 3 day search we found his body. So this last year I took up skiing with the creedo of "I ride for Russell Tiffany" his spirit got me into It and I am ever grateful I made the switch to skiing. Never going back!
Started at Granite Peak when I was 3. All of my family members have been on ski patrol, but I'm going to break the streak because the patrollers at Granite are whiny d-bags.
As a kid I was always jumping around on things, so my folks signed me up for athletic activities to see which I would like. They took me to the local ski hill when I was 4 years old, and have been hooked ever since. I taught myself most of the way and slowly transitioned to park in middle school. 1st generation skier in the fam, I can say. Now I work in the rental shop of the same hill.
skiing i started when i was 3 and freeskiing i started when i was about 13. i saw ahmet and his brother shreedin bristol ( at least I'm pretty sure it was them) and seeing all the cool shit they did wanted to make me ski.
When I was young my mom bought a box of nature valley granola bars at Costco. In that box was a DVD of a Warren Miller video that had snowboarding and skiing on some gnarly BC lines.
I watched that and was stoked. In 8th grade I got a used snowboard for christmas. I took it up and rode one day at a small resort 3 hours from my home. I sprained my ankle, it swelled up huge and I missed the next 3 weeks of basketball and couldn't ride again that season.
At the end of that season I saw some snowblades at the thrift store. I had watched the Shane McConkey tribute hundreds of times but didn't realize Saucer Boy was a joke because I also had seen the TC snow blade edits and found some website that talked about how legit snowblading was. I bought some bindings at a yardsale and mounted those bad boys in my garage. I had to cut the brakes off to make them fit so I used old shoe laces as leashes. I rode those bad boys for two years 9-10th grade, bumming rides to the resort 3 hours away. I averaged like 3 days a season.
In 11th grade I went on Craigslist and found some beater Vokl twins, I picked those up and had an awesome season where I skied five days, pretty much all groomers because I wanted to be a cool park skier, I was also in rear entry boots from a yardsale. I learned rails behind the ice rink, to this day the only rail I've ever slid sideways.
The next year, my senior year I bought a season pass to Schweitzer, a little further away but a way better mountain. I skied 6 days that season. I was a total gaper but I skied my first fresh pow and was hooked.
Freshman year of college I got real skis and started hitting cliffs and dropping some bigger stuff, had an incredible pow year and learned a lot, skiing some bigger lines, goofing around with friends. Think I skied 14 days or so
Sophomore year I got a car that I could drive to the mountain, I started shooting skiing last christmas and got really hooked, tried my first front flip and landed my first 360. Skied all the way into June, got 26 days
This year, decided I wanted to work in the industry, had a crap snow year but went on some trips, skied 25 days so far, did my first backflip, really need to land another of those, started touring.
I guess that brings my total lifetime resort days to somewhere less than 100, but including hiking and shooting days I think I broke 100 over spring break.
Anyway, sorry that was so long, I'm procrastinating on something else and have wanted to think that through for a minute. I've been skiing seriously since I was 18 and now I'm 21 and I'm so stoked to chase this thing as far as I can!
When I was 5 because my parents are skiers. Up in MI at Indian Head. Hooked from the beginning. Jumped on the snowboard bandwagon for about 6 years when I was 8, progressed to hitting park features, double blacks, and became bored, then saw kids spinning on boxes on skis in the park and knew I had to go back to skiing.
I started snowboarding in fourth grade (probably 9 or 10?) because I wanted to be cool. I snowboarded about a total of 4 days in two years. My mom forced me to try skiing at sugar bowl in tahoe and I was pissed because snowboarding was super cool and steezy but i soon found out that I loved how easy it was to pick up. I never looked back and started straight lining everything.
I Was a gaper until until my sophomore year in highschool then I started hitting small booters i made in bounds. I probably have skied less than a 100 days in my lifetime.
THis year and last year I have had a total of 5 powder days ( more than 4ish inches of fresh snow).
I started skiing when I was two at Eldora, my dad wanted me skiing early. I switched to snowboarding when I got a little older.
I like to think I really started skiing when I was 12, I thought it looked cooler, and with enough of my friends doing it I wanted to fit in. I started at Mt. Rose, but quickly moved to Northstar. Everything about skiing was cool to me, I was just STOKED to be on skis.
last_tangoI started skiing to be like my dad who also skied. I think I was 7ish when I started and learned on a orange plastic handled rope tow at pats peak in henniker new hampshire(where paintball started), about a half hour from where I was born. Pats peak ran a cheap program from 3pm to 10pm on saturday nights where you could get your lift ticket, rent gear, go tubing, and some basic ski/snowboard instruction for $22. That pricing made it affordable for a lot of people and fed the bigger places like loon in the region.
Pats peak has about 700ft of vert, a ghetto park, and last time I was there they had a "money booter" set up.
the chair on the left is the hurricane triple and "gnar" hurricane bump run that my 9 year old self went down. Looked funny cause the bumps were almost knee high on me.
When my elementary school had a Friday night program there I remember vaguely watching my friend bomb down that double black and took a mogul over the knoll right down to the flat and crumpled. Amazingly he was fine.
started skiing when i was a little dude probably 2 or 3 when my mom started taking me to the hill.
fucking fell in love with it right away. basically been all i think about since.
msewardstarted skiing when i was a little dude probably 2 or 3 when my mom started taking me to the hill.
fucking fell in love with it right away. basically been all i think about since.
Started because both my folks and my two older siblings all skied. The lil sis and I took a lesson and we made it to the top of Ragged Mt in NH by the end of the day. Its been 15 years and some days haven't been the best and others have made me thankful I was put on snow. After bumming this winter in Utah (even with the horrible snow conditions) i can't imagine working in another branch of the world. Skiing has become more than a sport, being in the mountains with my favorite pair of skis, it feels like nothing else. Skiing is my way of making peace with life, no matter what issues I have at the time, being on snow and focusing on the present is the greatest feeling ever. One Love Skiing. Plus after meeting so many people who ski and ride, watching movies of Plake, New Canadian Airforce, and CR, Tanner, Shane, the Stept movies, Level 1, and PBP. All those have made me want to ski more, not to progress and go pro, but to enjoy the sport and honor those who died doing what the loved.
